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Word: muscularity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amazing surgical dexterity spread his name all over the world, and lesser men seated in the operating theatre would gasp in admiration as Dr. Kelly, a scalpel in each hand, would boldly slash left & right through a patient's muscular abdominal wall. Dr. Cullen often tells the story of their first meeting, in Toronto's General Hospital in 1891. Young Tom Cullen was the intern assigned to handle the great Dr. Kelly's instruments. As Dr. Kelly grasped his scalpels Dr. Cullen turned round to thread a needle. When he looked back in a few seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fathers & Sons | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Fundamental in the Harvard system of education is a well balanced program of physical training, well geared to correct the student's athletic deficiencies and designed to turn him out a more co-ordinated muscular machine than he was before. For over a period of 20 years exhaustive work in this direction has been supervised by Assistant Director Norman W. Fradd whose announcement yesterday pointed to the unprecedented success of his study and emphasized the importance of his contribution to the development of "normal young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSCLES PUT TO WORK | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

When Fradd first arrived on the scene only 20 undergraduates in each class could be judged perfect in posture and muscular activity; today the figure is nearer 100. His energies have extended beyond the scope of the College and into the training of boys in their formative years through reports and athletic programs sent back; to various preparatory schools. That Harvard can boast today a sturdier and more vigorous group of men is in no small measure directly the result of his personal efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSCLES PUT TO WORK | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

Harvard students stand straighter, have better muscular co-ordination today than their predecessors in the period just after the war. Such is the conclusion reached by Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education, in a survey of research and training programs, extending over a period of 20 years in University service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sudden Increase In Student Posture Ratings Result of Physical Training | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

Fradd scoffs at body-building correspondence courses, advertised in many magazines. "Music size does not necessarily indicate power," he said. "It is the co-ordinated whole, rather than the bulk which determine physical fitness and muscular agility." Trend of Posture Ratings Grades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sudden Increase In Student Posture Ratings Result of Physical Training | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

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